News Edition 24 Desk: It seems that Chinese troops deployed opposite the Eastern Ladakh sector have been badly affected by the extremely cold conditions in the area as the People’s Liberation Army has rotated 90 percent of its manpower and brought in fresh soldiers from the hinterland.
Since the April-May timeframe last year, China has deployed over 50,000 troops close to the Indian territory in eastern Ladakh and has been maintaining them there despite the limited troop’s withdrawal from forwarding locations in the Pangong lake sector “The Chinese have brought in fresh troops from the hinterland to replace the troops who had been there for the last one year. Around 90 percent of their troops have been rotated,” informed ANI
The reason for this rotation may be that the Chinese troops deployed in the extreme conditions in the high latitude areas have been severely affected by the extreme conditions faced in high latitude, extreme cold, and other related issues, they said. Even during the deployment in friction points in the Pangong lake area, Chinese troops were getting rotated on an almost daily basis at high altitude posts and their movement had become very restricted, the sources said.